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- Examples:
- Thoughts:
- Subdomains are used for major divisions of the website.
- There's a single namespacing-entry after the domain which allows the website to separate out their main content from all the other stuff they need to have on the site.
- 'wikipedia.org/wiki/name_of_the_page'
- 'stackexchange.com/questions/constant_id_of_the_page'
- Interestingly, with stackexchange they have a constant ID which allows the user to change the name of the post (and thus the descriptive URL), whereas with Facebook you can change your username and thus change the URL to your page. I would
Articles
- Google - Keep a simple URL structure
- Overly complex URLs, especially those containing multiple parameters, can cause a problems for crawlers by creating unnecessarily high numbers of URLs that point to identical or similar content on your site.
- 2015.02.24 - Moz.com - 15 SEO Best Practices for Structuring URLs
- 2015.04.06 - QuickSprout - Does URL Structure Even Matter? A Data Driven Answer